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Protecting Your Restaurant During the Pandemic When Employees Return from Vacation

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These seven tips can help ensure employees and guests are protected when employees return from vacation: Follow Official Guidance. If you amend your employee handbook or policies, be sure to inform employees, distribute the revised document(s), and have employees acknowledge the changes by requesting a signature receipt.

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MRM Research Roundup: Destination Dining, Voice Commerce, and the Force of Fast Food

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Tech’s impact on tipping: 56 percent of all respondents would reportedly not tip an AI system, while 22 percent would either tip or at least consider tipping, depending on the service. Italy dominates as the dream food destination (55 percent want to travel for pasta).

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The History of Tipping in Restaurants: The Complicated Past, Present, and Future

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When you dine out at a restaurant, you tip your server. A guest's tip subsidizes wages for most of America's restaurant workers. In most other parts of the world, tips are not expected—and in some cases, it's considered rude to tip. History of Tipping: How did gratuity become integral to our restaurant culture?

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Digital Dining and ‘Restaurant Recovery’ Show

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'Travel Safe' Tools. Tripadvisor® launched a new suite of “Travel Safe” tools to help consumers find, filter for, and validate health and safety information to feel more confident with their future travel choices across town and around the world. How Travel Safe helps travelers and business owners.

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Top Tips for Attracting Traveling Tourists to Your Restaurant

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By Leo Clarke, Contributor You may already be great at attracting locals to your restaurant, but attracting traveling tourists is a slightly different ball game. Let’s explore some top tips for attracting a new clientele of travelers and holiday-makers. If in doubt, check how other high-ranking local restaurants are doing this.

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8 Reasons Why Restaurant Workers Quit (And How to Retain Them)

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73% of those employees still receive tips. Implement a tip pool. Tip pooling is another way that restaurants are changing up compensation more fair across the board. A tip pool eliminates some of the downsides of tipping like inconsistent wages, an emphasis on “good tables,” and an individual mentality among serving staff.

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Restaurant Experts Talk Sustainability Tips and Trends

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As we look to celebrate Earth Day, restaurant industry insiders offer their top tips and trends. Shopping Local: By sourcing ingredients from within the region and reducing the miles our ingredients travel, I'm able to reduce our carbon footprint through cutting down on air pollution and fuel consumption.